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11th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs held in Zaragoza on 22-26 June 2015

Last week, from 22 to 26 June 2015, we had the pleasure to host the “11th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs” at the Paraninfo building of the University of Zaragoza. More than 120 scientist from all over the … Continue reading

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IAXO and TREX-DM in the program “Objetivo”

Objetivo is a program of the local TV channel “Aragón Televisión”. (It is a larger program, go to minute 11:56) http://alacarta.aragontelevision.es/programas/objetivo/cap-147-09022015-2132

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IAXO in the television

IAXO appeared last week in the local TV “Aragón televisión”  

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IAXO in the local newspapers

This has been a week with substantial impact in the local media for our research. Short articles on the IAXO project and on our activity in CAST have appeared in El Periódico de Aragón on the 27/11/14: And later on … Continue reading

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The new “IAXO pathfinder system” at CAST

This year has been an important one for our group. The new long-awaited “IAXO pathfinder” system has been finally (and successfully) installed in CAST. It consist of a newly built x-ray optics coupled to a low-background Micromegas detectors. The optics … Continue reading

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IAXO in the media

The International Axion Observatory (IAXO), project that will use TREX developments, is getting quite some echo in the local media, due to the recent positive recommendations of CERN scientific committee: IAXO in CPAN IAXO in the SINC news agency IAXO … Continue reading

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Best talk at TIPP2014

T-REX member Paco Iguaz (in the photo) got one of the NIM Elsevier sponsored awards to the best presentation by young researchers in the last TIPP2014 conference celebrated in Amsterdam in 2-6 June 2014, with a presentation on the status of CAST and … Continue reading

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NEXT-MM taking data at 10 bar!

Last November, a very important milestone has been achieved in T-REX. The largest Micromegas prototype of the T-REX laboratory so far, the NEXT-MM detector, is operating at 10 bar of a mixture of Xenon and TMA (trimethylamine). This is the … Continue reading

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CAST Micromegas detectors: progress in 2013

During 2013, there were many upgrades in the Micromegas detectors of CAST, concerning muon veto system for the Sunset detectors, new readout electronics & DAQ, and a new detector design carefully conceived for low background. The performance of the Sunset … Continue reading

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Letter of Intent of IAXO to CERN

The International Axion Observatory (IAXO) is a proposed fourth generation axion helioscope. It aims at a sensitivity much improved with respect to CAST. The conceptual design of the experiment has been finished and a Letter of Intent recently submitted for … Continue reading

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